NetCDF and OPeNDAP

NetCDF
is a data format particularly suited for multidimensional blocks of numbers, including metadata about scale, units etc.

For netCDF datasets (and HDF-5) we offer, besides the usual download, OPeNDAP access.
This enables users to view internal metadata hidden in the data files, make slices and subsamples of data, and use programmatic access to data with APIs for Java, Python, Matlab, etc. More info:
THREDDS,
OPeNDAP intro.

File options

For each netcdf (or HDF-5) file, the following options appear when you hover over the link:

html

Form to select specific data and obtain the result in text or binary (netCDF) version